Revise the following sentence to create parallel structure.

When John is relaxing, John likes either a good magazine or to listen to music.

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Revise the following sentence to create parallel structure.

When John is relaxing, John likes either a good magazine or to listen to music.

Babygirlella06 · Answer

Can someone help me I don't know how to create a parallel structure

Thongsiah · Answer

He needs to be placed somewhere in here, I'm pretty sure.

Babygirlella06 · Answer

Im confused

Thongsiah · Answer

Instead of saying John again, replace it with "he"

Babygirlella06 · Answer

Um...ok

Thongsiah · Answer

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Um...ok
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When it comes to parallel structure, you wanna pair nouns together.

Thongsiah · Answer

Just like how parallel lines are equal...Kinda think of it like that, but with words, I guess. You wanna have your nouns together.

Vocaloid · Answer

The sentence doesn’t show parallelism because the verb forms are different. Noice how it has the verb form “likes” and “to listen”. One way you could change it is to use the infinitive form for both verbs (to + verb). So you could change “likes a good magazine” to “to read a good magazine” in order to make both verb forms the same.